Daily Republican., 1887-07-30
NEWS SUNNI AIRY.
Bitten by HIS Dog-Uonshohocken's
BoOdior-wantod q Permit to Jump
From Bailoon-sIop Town Wiped
ONT

Out.
Near Amsterdam. New York, on
Thursday, George Griffith was badly
bitten by his dog, and IL now In q criti-
cal condition from erysipelas. The oog
chased hen under the piazza, and
Griffith crawled under In pursuit., when
the dog turned upon him and caught
him BY the neck he called for assist.
auce, and his daughter came to his re.
lief, not, however, until the animal had
severed two arteries In his neck.
A telegram from Norristown says 1t
has been discovered that Calvin RiRg, Q
school tax collector for the borough of
Conshohocken from 1882 to 1885. 10 short
Ia his accounts for the years 1884 and
1885 to the amount OF $4,000 The
Auditing Committee OF the School
Board began an inspection of Riggs
accounts last Saturday, and Rigg Was
requested to be present, but he disap
pcafed. He has four bondsmen.
A man named Edmondson on Friday
morning called on Chief of Police
Ebersold and Collector OnAhan, in Chi
oago, and asked "for pernit for
William Baldwin to jump from bal.
loon at the height OF 5.CG0 feet at the
West Side Driving Park" Mr.. Onahan
told him that "the city was not ngsged
In the business Of licensing people to
commit suicide, and he couldn't get
any such permit"
A telegram from Sioux City, Iowa,
says the Missouri river contin uts to cut
the bank In front Of that city, several
hundred feet of valuable property hav.
ing gone ont Of sight In the last twenty
four hours. The Illinois Central, Sioux
City and Pacific and Milwaukee Rail-
roads have joined in an effort TO stop
the cutting, and are working 800 men.
Engineers say they can control II in
time.
Amos Geigley and his seven children,
living at Terre 81 Ill, Lancaster County,
Pa, were taken violently Ill on Friday
morning, with symptoms of poisoning,
and at night all we're in o critical con.
oition. Mrs. Geigley was not made
sick. 1t IL thought that some person
Threw poison In the we'll, AMI the water
will be analysed.
A section Of Cincinnati known az
"Slop Town." including 20 buildings,
only five of them briok, and several
stables, was destroyed by fire yesterday
afternoon. $50 people were burned out,
and the loss is estimated at $l00. 600
Fifty COWS were burned in the stables.
Five fremen and o policeman were
prostrated by heat.
James McTighe and James Dalton,
Of Binghampton, New York, drove in.
to creek nine miles from that city on
Thursday night. The bed OF the creek
is fifteen feet below the road. McTigh'
WAS killed and Dalton dangerously in
, jured. Tho bridge spanning the stream
had been washed away, and the mel
,, did not know it.
!. A tornado passed over David City
2 Nebraska, last evening, demolishinI
I half the buildings In the place, IL c.ud
i. ing the Union Pacific and BurlinRto
and Missouri depots, q brick schoC
house, two cAnschsss several stores an,
many dwellings. One man was killed
= The loss on property Is estimated
. : $500, 900.
q The boiler of the Houston Lumbe
4 Company's saw and planning mill q
i Houston, Texas, exploded on Thursday
' wrecked half the building, and kills
|. A. @. Wells, general manager Of th
a company, and Andrew Henry, the eng
+ neer. Frank Wilson, laborer, wa
!. mortally injured. One man and tw
d boys are missing.
r Wilson g. Baker, q real estate broker
q who had consented to testify for th
prosecution In the "boodle" cases i
Chicago, has disappeared, and Is sai
to bs hiding In Wisconsin, where hi
e expenses will be paid by the defendant
II until the present trial is ended,
n The Little Rolling Mill in st. Lou
It was closed on Friday, in consequence
Of otrSk a a tho ofnk and for
P hundred men are idle. James Jone
Il son OF the periHtendent Of the mil
It was roughly handled by scme OF Il
e men.
L After three weeks OF hot weather n
. preoedented In New Hampshire, violel
= thunder storms occurred on Thursda
!. night. AT Franklin Falls, the stor
~ ragged for ten hours, washing out Il
highway and doing great damage
the crops.
=. Kate Callaghan, Della WEIGH, Matt
20 Heating and Maggie Toomey, who
% ages ranged from IL TO IA years, we
y drowned while bathing in the Concol
q river at North Billerica, Massaehusett
y, on Thursday afternoon.
a. Mrs. John A. Logan has 30 far r
"a covered from the injuries she receiv.
ID by runaway accident at Carsondal
NJ Illinois, that she was able to travel
ri Chicago yesterday. She receives
9. callers, no wever
W Three men were dangerously, II NJ
es fatally, injured by premature pla
r at Binden Furnace, near Hudson, Ne
York, on Thursday. 1t ie said the
cident was caused by their own car
leseness.
n 1t is said that Joseph Smith, il
v. president of the Mormon Church
an Lamont, Illinois, will 60 to Salt LAl
10 City and present his claims to d
III Presidency of the Mormon Church
u. Utah.
u. @. Heninger, aged 81 years, comm
d. tod suicide by shooting himself throuI
Id the head In Brooklyn on Friday.
VI had been suffering from softening
or the brain.
to The American man-of-war Yap tic
Friday sailed for North Bay "to 4
how the United States fishermen q
faring ut the hands Of the Domint
~ cruisers"
~. Harvey Fletcher's house, in Lowe
=, VT, was struck by lightning OH Erid
sa s evening. Mrs. Fletcher was killed q
he he her husband paralyzsd.
Ist A heavy wind storm swept over
100 country around Mason City, Iowa,
IL Fiiday afternoon, unroofng dwellin
,se aud blowing down barns.
-" While the tug Keyser was on the W
from Tampa to Mobile, her capita
William Collins, WAS washed overboa
Ice and lost last Wednesday night.
ne A violent storm passed over Paters'
or. N. j., on Friday evening Much da
,r- age was done by lightning in the
ara ron ndJn0 Coupfry